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  • As the war progressed, the passage and growth of Dirle - wanger's Kommando can be traced in SS records, particularly those of the (hardly oversqueamish) Judge Advocate's office.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • It was a lengthy ditty and in its wording not oversqueamish; the Queen's career in England was detailed without any stuttering, and you would have found the catalogue unhandsome.

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • It was a lengthy ditty, and in its wording not oversqueamish; the Queen's career in England was detailed without any stuttering, and you would have found the catalogue unhandsome.

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • They're good people, though they haven't been oversqueamish in the use of savages against us, and they're really responsible for the cruelties done by the painted demons. "

    The Hunters of the Hills 1890

  • "I ain't oversqueamish, but that is too confounded mean!

    Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute Horatio Alger 1865

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